{"id":38800,"date":"2026-07-04T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38800"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:26:28","slug":"egypt-expects-1-72-bln-from-eu-assistance-package-in-coming-days-minister","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/egypt-expects-1-72-bln-from-eu-assistance-package-in-coming-days-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt expects $1.72 bln from EU assistance package in coming days: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt expects to receive \u20ac1.5 billion ($1.72 billion) from the European \u200bUnion in the coming days, \u200cthe first of two remaining tranches of a \u20ac5 billion macro-financial assistance package, Foreign \u200bMinister Badr Abdelatty said \u200bon Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference \u2060in Egypt&#8217;s new administrative capital \u200balongside European Commissioner for the Mediterranean \u200bDubravka Suica, Abdelatty said the outstanding \u20ac3 billion would be disbursed in two equal tranches \u200bof \u20ac1.5 billion each.<\/p>\n<p>He said Cairo \u200bhoped the last payment would be transferred \u200cby \u2060the start of the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has so far disbursed \u20ac2 billion of the package, having transferred an \u200binitial \u20ac1 billion \u200btranche \u2060in January 2025 and a second \u20ac1 billion earlier this \u200byear.<\/p>\n<p>The macro-financial assistance forms \u200bpart \u2060of a broader \u20ac7.4 billion funding deal the EU announced in 2024, which \u2060also \u200bincludes \u20ac5 billion in \u200bconcessional loans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16300,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-38800","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"He said Cairo \u200bhoped the last payment would be transferred \u200cby \u2060the start of the autumn.","published_date":"","news_description":"He said Cairo \u200bhoped the last payment would be transferred \u200cby \u2060the start of the autumn.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38801,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38800\/revisions\/38801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}